Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, a Spanish-born photojournalist, believes photography has the power to make the world a better, more peaceful place.
Since around 2000, Vilanova, 43, has documented the lives of women and children living in conflict zones in such countries as Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
A series of his works, covering battlefields in the Middle East and Africa, won in late May the second Mika Yamamoto International Journalist Award, created to honor Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto, who was shot dead in Aleppo, Syria, in August 2012.